OCTOBER SKIES

October muses upon Dawn's aisles,

keeping her solitary path,

transposing the Season's outlines 

onto endless turquoise miles. 

By beaming beryl berms, she pauses, 

as nascent veins of white

fire course past bright billows, 

through brindled ranks, to the black

vanguard of a distant battle front. 

A quickening, a glow, shudders over

spades and curls of flame,

over the darkened riverbed, through

shimmering, water-laden air.

Here, Earth yielded her riches at

harvest, where Autumn, now clad in 

brazen robes, to September 

whispers fond adieus, as yellowing

moss and purple bells await

October's storming of hilly citadels.

Her grey celestial ballistae, she bids

discharge their liquid spears,

smiling through blossoming brume

upon frost-rimmed sedges

and burgeoning becks, upon the

slow march of silver drops

into Earth's womb. Golden sighs 

glide from her lips, tint the sparkle

dust she goes to sift

upon boundless blue miles.

© 2015 Lily's Verse

Lilium Candidum

Image: AUTUMN RIVER LANDSCAPE

Source: www.liveinternet.ru

Artist: Jasper Francis Cropsey